$25,500 High Roller (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 19: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante Players Remaining: 2 of 102
The final two players return from break to begin Level 19, with increased blinds of 20,000-40,000 and a big blind ante of 40,000. Here are the official chip counts from the table, followed by the final table payouts:
3rd: Anton Wigg – $314,925 4th: Vikenty Shegal – $216,670 5th: Martin Zamani – $141,085 6th: Stephen Song – $103,295 7th: Anthony Hu – $85,660 8th: Adam Hendrix – $73,065 9th: Gal Yifrach – $70,540
3rd: Anton Wigg – $314,925 4th: Vikenty Shegal – $216,670 5th: Martin Zamani – $141,085 6th: Stephen Song – $103,295 7th: Anthony Hu – $85,660 8th: Adam Hendrix – $73,065 9th: Gal Yifrach – $70,540
$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 28: 75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante Players Remaining: 12 of 1,566
Action folded to Nicholas Davidson in the cutoff and he moved all in for 2,125,000. Willie Wiggins came along from the small blind and Davidson was the player at risk.
Davidson: Wiggins:
Davidson needed a lot of help to stick around the Championship, missed the flop but paired the turn to take the lead. The board finished with the river for Davidson’s double.
$25,500 High Roller (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 18: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante Players Remaining: 3 of 102
Vikenty Shegal got it all in from the big blind for 110,000 with , and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive against the of Ali Imsirovic, who was under the gun.
The board came — Shegal flopped a pair of kings, but Imsirovic paired his nine on the turn and his jack on the river to win the pot with two pair, eliminating Shegal in fourth place.
Ali Imsirovic – 3,300,000 (110 bb) Vikenty Shegal – Eliminated in 4th Place ($216,670)
With three players remaining, the average chip stack is about 3,400,000 (113 big blinds), and the remaining players are all guaranteed at least $314,925 each.
$25,500 High Roller (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 18: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante Players Remaining: 4 of 102
Martin Zamani moved all in from the hijack for 140,000, Ali Imsirovic called from the button, and Bryn Kenney moved all in over the top from the small blind. Imsirovic folded.
Zamani turned over , and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive against Kenney’s .
The board came , and Kenney rivered a nine-high straight to win the pot and eliminate Zamani in fifth place.
As he got up to leave, Zamani smiled and said, “Alright, Bryn. Nice interaction. I wish death upon you again.” (Zamani was clearly joking, and it didn’t come off the least bit threatening.)
Bryn Kenney – 6,900,000 (230 bb) Martin Zamani – Eliminated in 5th Place ($141,085)
With four players remaining, the average chip stack is about 2,550,000 (85 big blinds), and the remaining players are all guaranteed at least $216,670 each.
$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 28: 75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante Players Remaining: 12 of 1,566
Scott Levitt open-shoved for 700,000 from under the gun and Jacob Ferro looked him up from the button.
Levitt: Ferro:
Levitt had two live suited cards for a chance to double up. But he missed the board to go out in 13th place. A rough day for our Poker Room regular, one where nothing went right since Day 4 kicked off.
Jacob Ferro – 13,200,000 (105 bb) Scott Levitt – Eliminated in 13th Place ($48,900)
A few minutes later, Bryn Kenney raised under the gun to 70,000, Martin Zamani reraised from the button to 380,000, and Kenney asked for a rough count of Zamani’s stack. Zamani carefully broke down his chips to make them easy to count (it’s a little less than 2.5 million), but he suggested that somebody else would do a better job of counting his chips. Kenney verbally assessed it as about 2.5 million, and he called the three-bet.
Both players checked to the turn on a board of , Kenney bet 465,000, and Zamani called.
The river card was the , and Kenney bet 1,585,000. Zamani went into the tank with about 1,800,000 in his stack.
“I knew this was coming,” said Zamani, “and I still wasn’t ready for it.” Zamani added that he’s bad at ICM calculations, and then said, “I assume everyone’s rooting for me to put it in.”
Zamani assessed his own chip stack and perked up when he realized he wouldn’t be all in if he called.
“Wait? I’ll still have chips? This is exciting!”
Zamani switched gears at that point and started assessing the hand out loud.
“What could you really have here?” asked Zamani. “You definitely don’t have kings. You could have aces. You could have quads. There is also a big fuck-you factor between us.”
Zamani looked at Kenney and said, “You talked so much before when you had it, and now you’re quiet. I want to make a good fold for once, but I can’t imagine it would be a good fold.”
Zamani eventually called, and Kenney showed for trip jacks. Zamani mucked, and Kenney won the pot.
Zamani said, “That was part of the fuck-you factor. He could have a bunch of jacks.”
Bryn Kenney – 6,325,000 (211 bb) Martin Zamani – 210,000 (7 bb)
With five players remaining, the average chip stack is about 2,040,000 (68 big blinds), and the remaining players are all guaranteed at least $141,085 each.
$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 28: 75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante Players Remaining: 13 of 1,566
Jakob Miegel opened to 275,000 from under the gun and Joseph Cheong called from the cutoff. Anshul Rai ripped it in for 1,200,000 from the big blind to get a fold from Miegel and call from Cheong.
Rai: Cheong:
Rai needed to improve to double and popped the flop for trip aces. The turn and river locked up his double.
Anshul Rai – 2,875,000 (23 bb) Joseph Cheong – 3,675,000 (29 bb)